need help to extract Contacts from Droidx3, no back up, phone touchscreen is fried

The touchscreen on my x3 has suddenly stopped working, rendering the phone inoperable. I have never backed up my 300+ Contacts to Verizon or Gmail servers and I need to extract them from the phone. Three different so-called Verizon "techs" claim they can't access the phone to download the contacts without voiding the phone warranty. I have a new x3 and I couldn't care less about the dead phone's warranty. I am certain there is a way to access the phone and pull out my contacts. I don't care how it gets done, I NEED my Contacts. I am in the Los Angeles area. Can anyone here point me in the right direction to someone that can help me? Thanks in advance.

I can connect it to my PC and access file folders but I don't see where the Contacts are stored. From reading on the net, it appears Motorola has designed the contacts to be encrypted somewhere on my phone. Where do I find them?

I read elsewhere that applying a magnet to the back of the phone may assist to bypass the frozen slidelock and at least allow the use of the slide out keyboard, but I tried several magnets with no results.

There HAS to be a way to locate the encrypted file and export it out of the phone for de-encryption.

Maybe there's a sequence of keys to bypass the slide lock? Do your capacitive buttons work?

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I've hunted all over the web for an answer to that question. Many others have experienced the same problem with the frozen touchscreen and wanted to know if there is a slidelock bypass with a keyboard sequence.

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